Dr. Lorie M. Liebrock is the Director of the New Mexico Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NMCCoE). Dr. Liebrock reports to the Vice President of Academic Affairs and works closely
on economic development with the Executive Director of the NMT Office of Innovation
Commercialization.Her work with the NMCCoE leads projects including a Summer Institute with Sandia National
Laboratories, an expansion project for Codebreaker Challenge, and an economic development
project to help New Mexico companies prepare for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification.
She is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and is the principal investigator
for NMT's NSF-funded Scholarship for Service Program in which she has mentored over
60 students who have gone on to government service in security. Dr. Liebrock has extensive
experience in cybersecurity, as well as parallel and high performance computing. She
has published twenty-six journal articles, thirty-nine conference and workshop papers,
and holds two US patents. Her research includes enterprise-wide cybersecurity, foundations
of computer science, information assurance, parallel processing, and visualization
with a focus on complex problems that require the integration of many aspects of computer
science. This provides many student research opportunities, as she integrates students
in all of her research - from freshmen to Ph.D. candidates. Dr. Liebrock holds both
M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University and B.S. and M.S. in Computer
Science from Michigan Technological University.
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science, Rice University, September 1994, Dissertation Title: Using
Problem Topology in Parallelization, Co-advisors: Dr. Jack Dongarra and Dr. Ken Kennedy
M.S. Computer Science, Rice University, May 1992
M.S. Computer Science, Michigan Technological University, May 1988
B.S. Computer Science, Honors, Michigan Technological University, May 1985
Assoc. General Studies, Highest Honors, Delta College, December 1981
“Detecting Anomalous Behavior Via User Authentication Graphs”, Alexander Kent, Joshua
Neil, and Lorie Liebrock, US Patent Serial No. S133191, NMT and LANL, March 2016,
US Patent Serial No. 10,015,175, July 3, 2018.
“Multiprocessor Parallel Computer Architecture Using a Parallel Machine with Topology-Based
Mapping of Composite Grid Applications”, US Patent Serial No. 5,737,623, 1998
Dr. Lorie M. Liebrock's research interests focus on issues related to cybersecurity.
She works with numerous students on a variety of issues in cybersecurity from analysis
of impact of legal and policy changes on organizations, to metrics for determining
the effectiveness of classifiers on applied problems, to forensics, enterprise-wide
cybersecurity, and emulytics. Her approach to cybersecurity research integrates the
transdisciplinary breadth of cybersecurity - from computer science, to policy, to
psychology.
She has also done significant research in parallel computing. One long term focus
is on using problem topology during compilation. In particular, the use of topology
to automate data distribution and allow application of regular application optimizations
to partially regular problems. She has developed algorithms for automatic distribution
of irregularly coupled regular mesh (a.k.a. composite grid or multiblock) problems,
e.g., aircraft aerodynamics and water-cooled nuclear reactor simulations, via the
use of problem topology. For use with these automatic distribution algorithms, she
has developed a program template and a set of style guidelines for these applications
that allow automatic transformation of an application code with no notion of data
distribution into a standard High Performance Fortran program with complete distribution
specification.
The Randolph Computer Science Education Program focuses on making computer science more engaging for learners from middle school
through college across many learning styles (readers, listeners, visual learners,
and hands-on learners).
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